https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u en-us 2017-09-29 16:34:33 UTC 2025-11-06 04:30:24 UTC hello@padlet.com s621699 https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192681220 The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.]]> 2017-09-30 14:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192681220 s621699 https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192681560 The Intolerable Acts were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.]]> 2017-09-30 15:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192681560 s621699 https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192681687 The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the tea act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston tea act on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard.]]> 2017-09-30 15:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192681687 s621699 https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192682001 The Boston Massacre was a street fight that happened on March 5, 1770, between a Patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of the British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.]]> 2017-09-30 15:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192682001 s621699 https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192682077 Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Act imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.]]> 2017-09-30 15:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192682077 s621699 https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192682211 The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22,1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.]]> 2017-09-30 15:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192682211 s621699 https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192682419 On April 5, !764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses]]> 2017-09-30 15:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192682419 s621699 https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192682453 The Proclamation of 1763 was in October 7,1763, by King George III, Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and India. And which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.]]> 2017-09-30 15:12:29 UTC https://padlet.com/s621699/508xryki1g9u/wish/192682453